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ITNEXT Summit 2019: serverless, streaming and cloud native transformations

For the third time in a row I’ve attended the ITNEXT Summit. This year I got a ticket from LINKIT, for which I thank them. It was the best ITNEXT Summit I’ve been at so far.

It started with breakfast. I already had it at home, but I can’t resist a good croissant. Mmm… Where was I? Oh yeah, the summit. In this blogpost I look back on the sessions I attended.

 

Cultivating Production Excellence – Liz Fong-Jones

Liz Fong-Jones about dealing with complexity in production

I’ve been on-call for complex systems in my life, but in the era of containers and serverless things have changed. Some things Liz Fong-Jones spoke about in her keynote did sound familiar, but she discussed how with complex architecures with distributed systems, containers and cloud it is no longer a question of systems being up or down. (more…)

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, ago

Codemotion Amsterdam 2018, day one

Last Friday I almost felt I had to explain a colleague that I don’t always win raffles and lotteries. Because yep, I won another ticket. Again via the Roaring Elephant podcast. It’s pretty worthwhile listening to them, is all I’m saying.

This was a ticket for CodeMotion Amsterdam 2018. CodeMotion is a conference for developers with topics like the blockchain, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, software architectures, but also front-end development, game development and AR/VR.

Amsterdam from the ferry to the north of the city.

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By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, ago